The business manager of a Melbourne primary school was asked to record purchases of wine as professional development spending, an anti-corruption inquiry into the Victorian Education Department is told.

Tens of thousands of dollars worth of Italian wine bought on behalf of former Victorian Education Department official Nino Napoli was paid for by Chandler Park Primary School, a corruption hearing told.

The subcontractor who affixed hoarding to a wall that collapsed killing three people in 2013 tells a court he was just a labourer at the time and believed the appropriate permits had been obtained before he did the work.

Victoria Police will roll out Australia's first stop-and-search receipting program, spurred by a 2013 Federal Court case concerning racial profiling, though there are fears the program will be redundant as officers are not required to record ethnicity.

Researchers in the UK are looking at using the power of pee to light refugee camps in disaster areas. The cheap and abundant fuel source could mean power to formerly inaccessible areas, and more security for women.

Sixty organisations sign a joint letter urging Social Services Minister Scott Morrison to give the homeless sector some certainty, with $115 million in federal funding due to run out by the middle of the year.